2012-06-22

Turkish F-4 Downed !!

Al Manar TV stated that Syrian Air Defense Force shot down an F-4 Phantom of Turkish Air Force today.

A Turkish TV NTV confirmed that the aircraft took off today 10:30am from Erhac AFB in Malatya province south of Turkey and disappeared from Radar around 12 midday today; Moreover, the two crew were found alive 8 miles to the west of Ras Al Baseet (north of Lattakia).

There are no photos of the defected SAF MIG-21 so far seen on the internet.The published photo is in fact of an Egyptian Mig-21 with high viz markings.Maybe the Chinese copy.Jordan is evidently very sensitive about showing off its trophy so as not to offend its far stronger neighbout, with whom it has strong trading ties if nothing else.

SY AF SIG, Syrian official sources confirm bringing down the recon. RF-4 by 23mm AAA, it does make a sense if the RF-4 realy approaches the Syrian beaches to a range of 4km or less (we are talking about something advanced like the Pantsir-S1).

We must consider that if a SAM tracked an advanced aircraft such as this RF-4 for sure the pilot will report the ground command that he is targeted and locked...which wasn't reported by TuAF command.

Rumors say that the Russian battle ships may have an arm in this accident.

The camera (and a single RF-4E) was flying in light of testing the effectiveness of a ground radar (One can imagine that this is a mobile radar installed near Hatay due regional tensions) for this, it simulated approaches at different altitudes.

He made an initial approach from the east, then over Hatay he veered to the southwest.

At 11:37, he turned around, somewhere between Cyprus and Syria, while lowering its altitude. He crossed the Syrian territorial waters to 11:42 at an altitude of 200 feet. At 11:42, he received a warning from the Turkish controller alerted him that it was Syrian in space. The plane left Syrian space at 11:47. At 11:50 he was back on Hatay where he will ask its controller to a new level. At 11:58 he was hit by flak, 13 miles of the Syrian coast while its direction is southwest. It crashed at 12:02 in Syrian waters. There was at no time a Syrian warning.

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